EastCoastFan

So does the Paradise Valley Community College. A little more is needed.

Given that this apparently is the "doesn’t fit anywhere else" thread, I'll toss out a question that I've been wondering about. The Big Ten has a policy of only having AAU (Association of American Universities) in their conference, although they were embarrassed by Nebraska, which lost their AAU status shortly after being admitted into the conference. The other conference that places a high value on academic standing of its members is the Pac-12. Right now, eight of the twelve Pac-12 member have AAU status. The AAU embraces leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education. My question is whether there are efforts underway for the four Pac-12 schools without that standing to gain it. Pac-12 Schools in the AAU and Year of Admission: Stanford (1900 -- charter member) California (1900 -- charter member) Washington (1950) Colorado (1966) Oregon (1969) USC (1969) UCLA (1974) Arizona (1985) Pac-12 Schools not in the AAU: Utah Arizona State Oregon State Washington State Is there any move by Utah, ASU, OSU, and/or WSU to gain AAU status?

In Tedford's last year, Cal improved to 6th in attendance in the conference with their newly freshened digs, moving up from their 11th place the year before when they played at AT&T park.

Actually, looking at the numbers, I was wrong. The Pac-12 is not the lowest. Here's the NCAA report for 2017: Conference....2017 Attend.... Avg. Change In Avg. 1. Southeastern....75,074....-2,433 2. Big Ten...66,227.....+ 76 3. Big 12.....56,852..... -679 4. Pac-12.....49,601.... -472 5. Atlantic Coast...48,442..... -1,292

Average attendance for the Pac-12 in 2017 (the lowest average conference attendance of Power Five leagues): USC: 72,683 Washington: 68,822 UCLA: 56,044 Oregon: 55,483 Arizona State: 51,380 Stanford: 47,398 Colorado: 47,056 Utah: 45,913 Arizona: 42,938 Cal: 36,548 Oregon State: 34,754 Washington State: 31,982

The metric makes no sense. In the 1960's, college teams were playing ten game seasons, and there were far fewer bowl games. So 9+ wins really meant something. By the mid-1970's, teams had eleven game seasons and there were a few more bowl games. There were twelve games in the 1980's, and by the 1990's, thirteen for teams playing in their conference championship or having a game in Hawaii ... and we were moving toward the current total of 40 bowl games. You can't compare nine wins in the 1960's to nine wins today. At a minimum back then you would have had to show a 9-2 record after a bowl. Today the record could be 9-4 or even 9-5. this is the same bad logic that talks about 20-win basketball seasons, comparing years when teams played only 25 games with now, when there are more than 30.

Wasn't most of Cal's $$$ for "renovation" really sucked up by earthquake prevention? Does USC face the same dollar focus for structural stability?

I don't know, this renovation of the Coliseum looks pretty rad. Sort of like what the Bears did in Chicago with Soldier Field. It preserves the outer structure with all of its glorious history, but drops tomorrow right inside. Nice.

Next year this will be completed at Colorado: http://www.cusustainableexcellence.com/?utm_source=pacmail&utm_medium=email&utm_content=SEI&utm_campaign=buffsblast&hq_e=el&hq_m=700249&hq_l=6&hq_v=60ff99ef30#nav-home